Dihadabinder of wills

Who she is

Nature

A demonic planeswalker. Magic Untapped describes her as having the upper body of a woman and legs that end in octopus-like tentacles.

Method

She rules through proxies. A Wizards of the Coast feature on Dominaria United legends says: “In the past, she has sought to control the worlds she visits by corrupted proxies such as Sol’Kanar or Dakkon Blackblade.”

Her proxies

Dakkon Blackblade, an armorer she made into her champion, and Sol’Kanar, a protector of the Corondor forest Khone whom the Blackblade turned into a swamp king.

Appears in

The Armada comic Dakkon Blackblade #1 and the Battlemage video game, per the CoolStuffInc article.

The name

None of the pages I read explains what “Geyadrone” means.

Status

Alive and active in Dominaria United, with her goals unclear (see her story below).

Her story

1. The commission Dihada

   Dihada visits the armorer Dakkon and commissions the most powerful sword ever made, paying with planeswalker power. She teaches him the enchantment for a blade that steals the soul of whoever it kills. He spends years sacrificing people to it, and the sources say he cooled it with a slave each time it was heated, including, in one telling, his own son. When he hands it over, she uses it on him. His planeswalker spark ignites as the blade takes his soul, and he is bound to the sword.

   Magic Untapped · CoolStuffInc

2. Sol’Kanar and Corondor Dihada

   Dihada takes the Blackblade to Khone, a forest on the island of Corondor, and gives it to its protector. The blade corrupts him into Sol’Kanar. She turns the forest into a salt marsh and sends him against the island’s civilizations. He builds the Unholy Citadel from the remains of his victims.

   Magic Untapped · MTG Wiki

3. Carth summons Dakkon Dakkon

   A young man named Carth tries to assassinate Dihada and is imprisoned. A mad monk tells him Dakkon’s story and helps him escape. Carth then summons Dakkon, who is bound to his service. The two attack Dihada’s citadel, retreat to Khone, and are ambushed there. Dakkon disarms Sol’Kanar and Carth takes up the Blackblade.

   CoolStuffInc: the war

4. The elder dragons Dihada Dakkon

   Dihada summons two elder dragons against Dakkon. He kills Piru, and the blast opens a huge chasm. Dihada absorbs the dragon’s power and reveals that she was the mad monk all along. She captures and binds Dakkon, promising to summon him again. Carth leaves, and Dakkon calls him “Carth the Lion”.

   CoolStuffInc · MTG Wiki · MTGGoldfish

5. The Planeswalkers’ War Dihada

   Dihada leaves Dominaria and comes back during the Planeswalkers’ War. Magic Untapped says the mad planeswalker Ravidel summoned her to Corondor with a device called the Mox Beacon, together with Leshrac, Tevesh Szat, Kristina of the Woods, Ash Warlord Embereck, Sandruu and Jared Carthalion, and that she survived. The CoolStuffInc article says the war comes from the Battlemage game, where she goes after Carth’s descendant Jared Carthalion to reclaim Dakkon as her “chief lieutenant”. The game’s lore says “the cleverness of Carth and the power of Dakkon’s black blade proved to be Dihada’s undoing”, yet the same article says her actual fate is unknown.

   Magic Untapped · CoolStuffInc

6. Dominaria United Dihada

   She reappears in the Phyrexian incursion at the Tolarian Academy at Lat-Nam. Two sources say she killed or removed the archmage in charge and took his place leading the school. The MTG Wiki adds that she took over Corondor, hoping to force a conflict with Jared Carthalion that would bring Dakkon back under her control. Whether she works with the Phyrexians or simply seized an opening is not settled.

   Magic Untapped · MTG Wiki

Where the sources disagree

• Which elder dragons. The CoolStuffInc article names Chromium and Piru. The MTG Wiki says Piru and Rhuell, and MTGGoldfish says Piru and “Chromium Rhuell”. The MTG Wiki itself does not say whether Chromium and Rhuell are one dragon or two. Only Piru’s death is consistent across all three.
• What the sword did to Dakkon. Magic Untapped says she ran him through, igniting his spark as the blade took his soul. CoolStuffInc and MTGGoldfish say she struck or used the blade on his shadow, stealing his soul that way.
• Her motives toward Phyrexia. The Wizards feature says she left Dominaria at the end of the Planeswalker War, a few years before the first Phyrexian invasion, and that some believe she still lives, diminished, and secretly influences Dominarian politics. The MTG Wiki has her back for the later incursion.

I read these pages through a page-summary tool, so check quotes against the originals before relying on exact wording. The CoolStuffInc article calls the comic synopsis non-canonical.

Cards that depict her

Dominaria United Commander · 2022

Dihada, Binder of Wills

{1}{R}{W}{B}Legendary Planeswalker — Dihada · loyalty 5 · mythic

+2 Up to one target legendary creature gains vigilance, lifelink, and indestructible until your next turn.

−3 Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put any number of legendary cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Create a Treasure token for each card put into your graveyard this way.

−11 Gain control of all nonland permanents until end of turn. Untap them. They gain haste until end of turn.

Dihada, Binder of Wills can be your commander.

Art: Néstor Ossandón Leal. Official rulings: none.

Modern Horizons 2 · 2021

Geyadrone Dihada

{1}{U}{B}{R}Legendary Planeswalker — Dihada · loyalty 4 · mythic

Protection from permanents with corruption counters on them

+1 Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Put a corruption counter on up to one other target creature or planeswalker.

−3 Gain control of target creature or planeswalker until end of turn. Untap it and put a corruption counter on it. It gains haste until end of turn.

−7 Gain control of each permanent with a corruption counter on it.

Art: Ekaterina Burmak. Legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage and Modern.

Three official rulings (18 June 2021): she can’t be targeted, dealt damage or enchanted by permanents with corruption counters, and creatures with them can still attack her but their damage is prevented. Permanents keep their counters if she leaves, so a later Geyadrone Dihada will have protection from them too.

Printings

The card-data tool returned one entry per card, not a full printing list, so other treatments (foils, promos, oversized cards) may exist that are not listed here. I did not confirm what the DMC 49 treatment is called.

Playing her as a commander

Share of Dihada decks that play each card

• Shanid, Sleepers’ Scourge63.9%
• Primevals’ Glorious Rebirth62.8%
• Swords to Plowshares62.6%
• Urza’s Ruinous Blast58.2%
• Odric, Lunarch Marshal57.5%
• Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff52.3%
• Cadric, Soul Kindler47.0%
• Path to Exile43.5%
• Reanimate43.5%
• Ratadrabik of Urborg43.3%

Source: EDHREC data, retrieved through a card-data tool on 28 October 2026.

What could not be confirmed

• Dihada’s Ploy (Modern Horizons 2, {1}{U}{B}, an instant with jump-start) shares her name. I found nothing confirming it depicts her or refers to her, so it is not in the card lists above.
• The elder dragons. Sources name them differently (see her story above).
• Her fate and aims. Her fate in the Planeswalkers’ War is called unknown by two sources. Whether she serves the Phyrexians in Dominaria United is not stated.
• The Dominaria United story. The MTG Wiki says she features in The Education of Ulf. I could not open that story, so the Dominaria United account above rests on the wiki and Magic Untapped.
• Blackblade–Dihada War page. The MTG Wiki’s page for the war would not load here, so the war section relies on the CoolStuffInc article, Magic Untapped, the MTG Wiki page on Dihada and MTGGoldfish.
• Prices and printings. Single lookups, and the printing list may be incomplete.
• Scryfall blocked the requests, so card text comes from a card-data tool.

Sources

• MTG Wiki: Geyadrone Dihada
• Magic Untapped: Who Is Geyadrone Dihada
• CoolStuffInc: The Blackblade–Dihada War
• Wizards of the Coast: The Legends You’ll Find in Dominaria United
• MTGGoldfish: The Lore of Modern Horizons 2